This major reference work is a one-shot knowledge base on electroporation and the use of pulsed electric fields of high intensity and their use in biology, medicine, biotechnology, and food and environmental technologies. The Handbook offers a widespread and well-structured compilation of 156 chapters ranging from the foundations to applications in industry and hospital. It is edited and written by most prominent researchers in the field. With regular updates and growing in its volume it is suitable for academic readers and researchers regardless of their disciplinary expertise, and will also be accessible to students and serious general readers.

The Handbook's 276 authors have established scholarly credentials and come from a wide range of disciplines. This is crucially important in a highly interdisciplinary field of electroporation and the use of pulsed electric fields of high intensity and its applications in different fields from medicine, biology, food processing, agriculture, process engineering, energy and environment. An Editorial Board of distinguished scholars from across the world has selected and reviewed the various chapters to ensure the highest quality of this Handbook.

lt; 1997-2002 Associate Professor 1998-present Head of the Laboratory of Biocybernetics 2002-present Professor 2003-2005 Vice-Dean for Research 2007-2015 Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering 2015-present Deputy Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Awards:1986 Preseren Award for Students, University of Ljubljana 1989 International Award of the Maphre Foundation (Spain) 1993 National Industrial Award of Krka Pharmaceuticals 1995 Award of the Republic of Slovenia for Scientific and Research Achivements [the ceremony] 2003 Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Science [the ceremony] 2008 Vodovnik Prize for Exceptional Research [the ceremony] 2008 Knight of the Order of Academic Palms of the

French Republic [the ceremony] 2012 IFMBE Vladimir Zworykin Award [the ceremony] 2012 Rector's Award for Innovations of the University of Ljubljana - 1st Prize 2014 Golden Plaque of the University of Ljubljana 2015 Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biomedical Engineering & Science [recipients]

Bibliography: Prof. Miklavčič has authored or co-authored over 360 original articles in scientific journals. His works have been cited over 5500 times (Sources: WoS – self citations excluded). Go to the link for a printout of his complete bibliography: http://splet02.izum.si/cobiss/bibliography?code=10268&langbib=eng

Additional activities:

· Member of the Council of the Bioelectrochemical Society (2009–)

· President of the Slovenian Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology (2007–)

· President of the International Society for Electroporation-Based Technologies and Treatments (2016-)

· Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Slovenian Forum on Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Radiation